Nangong Fancong didn't say anything else to me. When he saw me in a daze, he smiled beside me and said, "Anyway, everything is your decision, and my life is also in your hands."
When she said this, she was stunned for a moment, then turned to me and asked: "At the end of next year..."
I interrupted Nangong Fan and said, "I will follow you back to the Shenmu Clan!"
Nangong Fancong nodded.
In the next few days, after my order asking for money was issued, I no longer stayed in Wuwangsui City, but planned to go to Xishan County to find Qiu Zhan and Zheng Runxiu.
Prince Yun is extremely powerful in these fourteen prefectures and counties in the northwest. They are my friends, but I am Prince Yun's enemy. I am afraid that they will be implicated because of me.
But fortunately, Xishan County is the fiefdom of a county prince, not Prince Yun's territory. They should not be in any danger there for the time being.
Of course, when I went to look for Qiu Zhan and Zheng Runxiu this time, I also took Wu Ling Wang and Yang Luo with me. I would not allow them to make any mistakes.
Especially Yang Luo, I have high expectations for him.
This time we went to Xishan County, we were just looking for people, so everyone was relaxed when we set off, and everyone talked and laughed along the way.
Xishan County is on the west side of Jiuheng Prefecture, so when passing through Jiuheng Prefecture, we deliberately chose a relatively remote road to walk, so although we met some monks along the way, they were not dignitaries of Jiuheng Prefecture, so there were no What branches are born?
When we arrived at Xishan County, I started to use my jade pendant to issue orders, asking people from the Nandong Hall in Xishan County to help me find Qiu Zhan and Zheng Runxiu.
After we arrived in Xishan County, we did not go directly to the capital of the county. Instead, we stopped in a small town called Acol. The reason for our stay here was very simple. We were stationed in this small town called Acol. This is a cavalry regiment of a thousand men, and there is something wrong with this cavalry regiment.
This thousand-man cavalry regiment is also a talisman cavalry, but the talisman formation of their horses is not a ghost talisman formation, but a thunder and fire talisman formation.
This small town is not big, with only a few thousand people. It is located at the junction of Xishan County and Jiuheng Prefecture, so I initially thought that this group of cavalry should be the soldiers of the King of Xishan, but we saw those hanging in the cavalry camp. It is the flag of the Jiuhengzhou Legion.
That’s why I stopped here to find out what was going on. No matter what the King of Xishan said, he was still a royal family and a prince named Zhou. He had other people’s soldiers stationed on his territory. Could it be that he turned a deaf ear to it? ?
Moreover, although Akol town is small, it is located at the entrance of a valley. This valley is an important road from Jiuheng Prefecture to Xishan County. It is a battleground for military strategists. So the King of Xishan just gave up?
I really can't figure it out.
When I was investigating the situation here, Beili said to me: "I have been active in Xishan County for a period of time, and I have heard some news about the situation in this Acol town!"
I'll let Beili speak.
He said: "Jiuheng Prefecture was the original capital state of the northwest defense minister Yan Shengjun. Not only was Yan Shengjun very powerful, he used various reasons to suppress the King of Xishan, who was the most timid and fearful of all the princes. When Yan Sheng suddenly asked for money, he gave him money, and when he asked for food, he gave him food, and even allowed Yan Sheng to go to Xishan County to recruit troops."
Hearing Beiliu say this, I couldn't help but wonder: "Is there such a prince? Why didn't His Majesty the Emperor withdraw him?"
Bei Li said: "The king of the county can't just withdraw if he says so. There are too many political elements involved, and it's hard to explain at the moment."
Yan Shengjun was mentioned again, and I asked: "By the way, Yan Shengjun was the previous Minister of Defense of the Northwest. Is he dead?"
Beili smiled and said: "How is it possible? His Majesty used the name of promotion to vacate his position, and then asked you to fill it."
promotion?
Bei Li continued: "Your Majesty gave Yan Shengqun the position of Deputy Minister of Military Affairs, gave him the rank of general, and asked him to retire in the imperial city. This was tantamount to evading his power in disguise. However, Yan Shengqun was in the northwest.
I have been in business for many years, and even though he is in the imperial city, I still have to listen to him on many matters in the fourteen northwest prefectures and counties."
"Except for the thirty legions that your Majesty taught Bai Yu to command."
I smiled and said, "So, I am only nominally the Minister of Defense for the Northwest. In fact, it is Yan Shengrun who is in charge here?"
Beili said: "You can say that."
We stayed in the town of Akol for more than an hour, and then continued eastward. We walked eastward for almost three hundred miles before we discovered that the army of the King of the West Mountain was stationed, and it was just a supplementary force of two thousand guards.
Not to mention the dilapidation of the camp, the clothes of the soldiers are also uneven. Except for the sentries, it would be good for the other soldiers to share one weapon with three people. Moreover, among the infantry of the two Thousand Guards, there are only two Thousand Guards.
The elder is an Earth Immortal monk, and the others are all ordinary people with no cultivation at all.
Putting such troops here, they can't even be considered cannon fodder.
So is the King of Xishan crazy?
The two Thousand Guards with the strength of Earth Immortals were not in the camp yet. I went to grab two ordinary soldiers to investigate and found out that the two monks had gone to a deep mountain to practice cultivation. They had no idea what was going on here.
in spite of.
The situation in the northwest is relatively peaceful. If it were to be completely messed up by me, the King of the Western Mountains would be the first to be wiped out.
Seeing the condition of such houses, Bei Liu was not surprised and said: "This Xishan County has been like this for many years."
"But the defense of the capital city of Xishan County is pretty good..."
Beili used the words "fairly good", so I knew that the defense there wouldn't be much better. It seemed that before turning Jiuheng Prefecture and Yunshan Prefecture into my fiefdoms, I had to first
Organize the important military and political affairs within the jurisdiction of several counties and princes.
Thinking of this, I directly said to Beili: "Go and send a message to the capital city of Xishan County for me, saying that I will come to inspect!"
Beili asked me: "Come tomorrow?"
I said: "I don't know how to teach him a lesson. The entire defense of Xishan County is so outrageous!"
Bei Li had some doubts and said: "But the other party is a county prince after all and the biological son of His Majesty the Human Emperor. Do you remember not to go too far?"
I turned to look at Beili and smiled and said, "Don't go too far? Do you think His Majesty the Emperor can't go too far in giving me such a heavy task? Since I have such a heavy task, then I don't care whose son they are.
, whoever wants to hold me back, I will deal with it anyway, the Human Emperor is here, I will say the same thing!"
Beili was stunned for a moment, and he probably understood my situation, so he said to me: "Then I'll go, let Zhou Yin watch Yang Luo first."
After saying that, Beili flew towards Xishan City, the capital city of Xishan County, the King of the East.
After Bei Liu left, Zhou Yin said to me next to him: "Director Chen, there is something Bei Liu didn't say, and it's also about Xishan County. If you tell me, you will definitely be even more angry!"
I asked what was going on.
Zhou Yin said: "The King of Xishan actually joined the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance very early and is a member of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. He spends a large part of his annual fiscal revenue on building the strength of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance in Xishan County, so Xishan County
Inside, the legion's combat effectiveness is very sluggish, but on the other hand, the Immortal Guard formed by the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is very powerful in terms of combat effectiveness."
"There are ten Immortal Guards of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance in Xishan County. Each team has 5,000 people. The combat effectiveness of the two teams is comparable to that of an elite legion of the human race!"
"The most annoying thing is that King Xishan spent money on those Immortal Guards, but the command of the Immortal Guards is not in his hands, but in the hands of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance!"
When Zhou Yin said this, I wanted to crack open the head of the King of Western Mountain to see if his head was full of paste. How could there be such a stupid person in this world?
Seeing that I was angry, Zhou Yin said to me again from the side: "So Hall Master Chen, you can teach Xishan King a lesson, but you must not touch his power, otherwise Jiuheng State and Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance will immediately divide this place."
In Xishan County, the situation will be even more difficult to control by then!"
I nodded and said, "Okay, I will try my best to control myself."
Originally, I just came here to look for Qiu Zhan and Zheng Runxiu, but I didn't expect that it would involve so many things. If I hadn't come, I might not know what happened here until much later.
I need to think carefully about how to deal with that confused prince! (To be continued)